Bird Encyclopedia
Search and identify 1,000+ birds — with size, habitat, diet, voice, behavior, and the field marks that tell them apart.
Pacific Black Duck
Australia's most widespread dabbling duck, mottled dark brown with a bold dark eye-stripe and cream-buff face.
waterfowl
Musk Lorikeet
A small, fast-flying green lorikeet of southeastern Australia distinguished by its red face patch and namesake musky scent.
parrot
European Robin
A small, plump songbird with a bright orange-red face and breast, one of the most familiar and beloved garden birds in Europe.
songbird
Common Pheasant
A large, long-tailed gamebird; males are strikingly iridescent with a bare red face, while females are cryptically mottled brown.
gamebird
Bateleur
A distinctive short-tailed African eagle famous for its rocking, tightrope-walker flight and vivid red face and legs.
raptor
Saltmarsh Sparrow
A tidal marsh specialist with a bright orange face and crisp streaked breast, among the most threatened songbirds in North America due to sea level rise.
songbird
Daurian Redstart
A striking small thrush relative; the male shows a grey crown, black face, and vivid orange underparts and rump set off by a white wing patch.
songbird
Broad-billed Motmot
A smaller forest motmot with a rufous chest and face, a green back and crown, and a broad, wide-based bill, often perching quietly low in the understorey.
other
Whiskered Tern
A marsh tern with dark grey underparts, a black cap, and a crisp white cheek stripe that gives it a distinctive 'whiskered' face pattern.
seabird
Orange-winged Parrot
A medium-sized Amazon parrot with a green body, a yellow-and-blue face pattern, and a bright orange patch in the wing that flashes in flight.
parrot
Henslow's Sparrow
A secretive prairie sparrow with a large flat head, olive face, and one of the most unimpressive songs of any North American bird.
songbird
White-naped Crane
A grey East Asian crane with a distinctive white nape and hindneck, a bare red face, and pink legs, threatened by wetland loss along its migration routes.
wading-bird
Townsend's Warbler
A boldly patterned warbler of Pacific Northwest conifer forests, with a black-and-yellow face pattern, dark cheek patch, and streaked yellow breast.
songbird
Nelson's Sparrow
A secretive marsh sparrow with an orange face triangle and soft, blurry streaking, breeding in both interior prairie marshes and coastal salt marsh.
songbird
Hooded Oriole
A slender, long-tailed oriole strongly associated with palm trees, with males showing bright orange-yellow plumage and a black face and bib.
songbird
Southern Masked Weaver
A common, widespread southern African weaver whose breeding males are bright yellow with a black face mask and red eyes, known for its intricately woven grass nests.
songbird
Common Redstart
A brightly colored migratory chat of open woodland, the male showing a grey back, black face, and fiery orange breast and tail, constantly quivering its rufous tail.
songbird
Green-winged Macaw
A large red macaw distinguished from the similar Scarlet Macaw by a green band on the wing and fine red feather lines across the bare face.
parrot
Barrow's Goldeneye
A western diving duck closely related to the Common Goldeneye, the drake distinguished by a crescent-shaped white face patch and a steep purplish-black head.
waterfowl
Black-bellied Plover
A large, robust plover known as the Grey Plover in the Old World, striking in breeding plumage with a black face and belly and diagnostic black "wingpits" in flight.
shorebird
African Spoonbill
An all-white African wading bird with a bare red face and a distinctive grey spoon-shaped bill, common on lakes and rivers across the continent.
wading-bird
Little Wattlebird
A streaky brown-grey honeyeater with a rufous wing patch, one of Australia's larger honeyeaters, despite lacking the fleshy face wattles of its close relatives.
songbird
D'Arnaud's Barbet
An East African ground barbet with black-and-white speckled plumage, a yellow face, and a bubbling duet call, often seen bobbing near termite mounds.
other
Chestnut-fronted Macaw
A small macaw, mostly green with a brownish-chestnut forehead patch, reddish shoulders visible in flight, and a bare whitish face lined with fine dark feathers.
parrot